That evening, Matt Cutts, the head of Googleâs web spam team said that they do not crawl Facebook âwallâ pages and implied that they donât use Facebook shares for ranking. His language was somewhat vague (leaving room open as to whether some forms of Facebook data are used or come via a special feed), however we and many others felt that Matt had implied that Facebook shares, specifically, are not part of their web ranking algorithm. Rand pointed out that Google does have some access to Facebook data overall and set up a small-scale test to determine if Google would index content that was solely shared on Facebook. To date, that page has not been indexed, despite having quite a few shares (64 according to the OpenGraph).